Early Museum History: Administrative Records

Overview of the Collection

Organization and Arrangement

Index Terms

Series I. Museum Matters 1930-51, 1958, 1950-63

40 filing units
Incl. material related to general Museum activities, Committees, Departments, Programs and Projects; alphabetically arranged.

½"
incl. 1 TLS John Ackerman-Edward M. M. Warburg; AHB corresp. with artists interested in showing at MoMA; H-Z corresp. not found

28 items
incl. corresp. re: 20th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee; corresp. with Daniel Catton Rich and Fiske Kimball

See also, World War II (I.40).

John E. Abbott Correspondence
¼"
incl. JEA and JTS corresp. re: art therapy exhibitions; memos; list, associate members' donations to tea fund; memo re: Art Sale and Auction for the Armed Services receipts, expenditures, balance, and allocated funds; press release; report to the trustees

Army Specialized Training Program
¼"
incl. press releases; U.S. Army publicity photos

Artists in War
½"
incl. Betty Chamberlain corresp. and memos; press release; proposal for War Artists Information Bureau; typescript, “The Function of Art in Wartime”

Artists in War
½"
incl. memos; clippings; ephemera

Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead Proposals
½"
incl. corresp.; “Suggested Materials for Training of Regional Specialists Army Program” by Margaret Mead; “A Proposed Wartime Regional Materials Unit to be Set Up in The Museum of Modern Art”; “Suggested Materials for Regional Training” by Gregory Bateson

Armed Services Program Circulating Exhibitions
¼"
incl. film catalog; C/E bookings sponsored by Armed Services Program; corresp. re: Britain at War; Elodie Courter corresp. and memos

Armed Services Program Circulating Exhibitions
¼"
incl. Elodie Courter corresp. and memos; corresp. re: Overseas Studies, Foreign Area and Language Study Curriculum, and European Program, corresp. with the U.S. War Department, colleges, and universities; press releases; “Section of Psychology” from Transactions of The New York Academy of SciencesSer. II, 5(4): 72-78; Feb. 1943; questionnaire

Armed Services Program Circulating Exhibitions
3/4"
incl. C/E bookings and prices paid; corresp. with camp site captains

Museums Council - Therapy
3/8"
incl. corresp., Committee on Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation of the Museum Council of New York Second Memorandum and Report; report on therapy for the museum council subcommittee on therapy; press release re: education courses; report to the museum committee on rehabilitation; “Design Potentialities” and “New Approach to Occupational Therapy” by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Armed Services Program Organizations
5/8"
incl. Report to Policy Committee, Report of the Art Committee on College Curriculum Adjustments to the U.S. Office of Education, Wartime Commission; bibliography on art and war; transcript, JTS interview with WNYC, 1942 Oct. 15; list, Committee on Therapy members; corresp. and memos re: camouflage; schedule of income and expenditures of the Armed Services Program; memo re: meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art re: American Federation of Art function during WWII; questionnaire from Artists for Victory; USO National Photography Contest statement of purpose

Overseas Painting Unit
¼"
incl. JTS corresp. with the Federal Works Administration re: fund appropriation

Servicemen's Parties
¼"
incl. guest lists; cost sheet; corresp.

Soldier Art Program Correspondence and Receipts
3/8"
incl. receipts of art supplies for army camps expenditures; JTS corresp. with army captains

Soldier Art Program Correspondence and Receipts
3/8"

Veterans' Art Center
3/8"
incl. brochure, “Interior Design and Soldier Art”; poster; report to the trustees on the Museum's Armed Services Program; JTS and JEA corresp.; Victor D'Amico memos; memo re: JTS appointment

Veterans' Art Center
½"
incl. report, “The War Veterans' Art Center, 1944-1948, An Experiment in Rehabilitation through Art”; clipping; “Art and Skills Corps” newsletter no. 3: 1946; newletter, “The Urge to Make” 4(2): April 1946; RDH corresp.

Note: RDH directed the Art in America project. Holger Cahill edited the book published in conjunction with the radio series.

Articles
½"
incl. list, lectures and speakers; transcripts, “Official Architecture in America” by William Harlan Hale, “Photography in the United States”, “American Sculpture Since the Civil War”, “Stage Design and the American Theatre” by John Mason Brown, “Richardson and the Skyscraper: 1865-1900”

Art in America News
18 items
incl. Art in America Newsnos. 1-16; 1 TLS RDH-AAR

Art in Americaby Holger Cahill
½"
incl. budget, orders, corresp. with printers, publishers and museums. See also, Alan R. Blackburn Jr. Papers for complete set of press releases.

Art in Americaby Holger Cahill
3/8"
incl. corresp. re: permission to publish

Cuts - Correspondence
3/8"
incl. telegrams between AHB, Holger Cahill and RDH; corresp. with lenders

Cuts - Lists
10 items
incl. bibliography on American Art; schedule of programs; list of artists discussed and institutions where represented

Cuts - Permission of Owners
22 items

A-B Correspondence
½"
incl. corresp. re: news subscriptions and book orders

C-D Correspondence
½"

E-F Correspondence
35 items

G-H Correspondence
½"
incl. corresp. with RDH in Mexico; incl. 1 ALS-Holger Cahill; 1 TLS RDH-Edward M. M. Warburg

I-L Correspondence
¼"
incl. 1 TL RDH-Lincoln Kirstein; 1 TLS Fiske Kimball-ARB

M Correspondence
1/8"

N-R Correspondence
3/8"

S-T Correspondence
½"
incl. Art in America NewsNo. 9, 1934 December 1

U-Z Correspondence
incl. corresp. with and suggested topics from Forbes Watson of Public Works of Art Project

See also, World War II (I.40).

Receipts for Paid Sales
1"
incl. receipts, ledger sheets, memos

Memos, Sales Report, List
10 items
incl. list of gifts to Armed Services Program

Correspondence, Receipts
5/8"
incl. press release; receipts from Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

Note: the week of 1940 November 25-December 1 was set aside by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as National Art Week for the purpose of exhibiting and promoting work by living American artists. Francis Henry Taylor, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was Chairman of the National Council for Art Week; AHB was Chairman of the New York City Council for Art Week.

Correspondence
5/8"
incl. corresp.; memos; budget; 1 TLS Rockwell Kent (United American Artists)-AHB, 1940

Minutes and Reports
1"
incl. reports, lists, press releases.

Printed Material
3/4"
incl. transcript of “Art and Our World”; corresp., President Franklin Delano Roosevelt-Francis Henry Taylor (Metropolitan Museum of Art); clippings; press releases; bulletin from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940

1 item
incl. report and sample questionnaire sent to artists re: relationship between MoMA And New York artists

13 items
incl. 1 TL-Stephen C. Clark; 1 TLS Philip Goodwin-AHB; fourth floor film library plan

Note: published monthly by the Museum; from ca. 1944 through 1963 called The Museum of Modern Art Bulletin;see also, Allen Porter (IV.31.a-e.).

Bulletin

¼"
incl. 1 TLS Ione Ulrich-AHB, 1935; 1 TL AHB-JEA, 1935; 1 ALS George L. K. Morris-AHB, 1935; 2 ALS Morris-TDM, 1935; 6 TL TDM-Morris, 1935; 1 TL TDM-James Johnson Sweeney, 1935; memo re: aims of the Museum Bulletin;1 TL Cornelius J. Sullivan (“CJS”)-T.S. Eliot, 1933; 1 TL ARB-Maurice Sterne, 1933; 1 ALS AHB-ARB re: “art under Hitler”, 1933

2 items
incl. essay proposed by Sidney Janis for Bulletinon Cubism and Abstract Art(MoMA Exh. #46, 1936 March 2-April 19); 1 TL AHB-Janis; 1 TLS Janis-AHB

7 items
incl. memos, 1 TLS Joseph Hudnut-Ernestine M. Fantl

31 items
incl. memos; members' calendars of activites (ca. 1940); 3 TLS Philip Goodwin, 1939

3/8"
incl. corresp. re: mailing list

3/8"

¼"
incl. Julian Street, Jr. and Victor D'Amico corresp. and memos re: competition sponsored by The Greater New York Fund; press releases; contest standards; list of judges; sample ribbons; transcripts of speeches by Merle A. Gulick and Mrs. John S. Sheppard

½"
incl. corresp. re: questionnaires sent to colleges and universities

Advisory Committee Recommendations
13 items
incl. lists of proposed exhibitions, 1941-43, 1940; “Digest of Recommendations and Suggestions of the Advisory Committee of The Museum of Modern Art, November 1938-May 1941”, 1931-38, Digest of Suggestions, 1931-35

Auditing Committee
14 items
incl. letters of appointment

Development Committee
7 items
incl. memos, corresp. re: meetings, 1946 April 26 meeting agenda

Education Committee and Extension Office Correspondence
13 items

Educational Project, (formerly the Education Committee and Extension Office) Reports
16 items
incl. petition, Report of Extension Office, memos

Executive Committee
1 item
incl. 1 TLS ACG-ARB

Exhibitions Committee Reports and Statements
1 item
Note: Exhibitions Sub-Committee report

Exhibition Policy Report
2 items
Note: Advisory Committee report on the Exhibition Policy of The Museum of Modern Art (2 copies)

Film Library Committee
11 items
incl. corresp.; lists of members; 1 TLS ACG-AAR, 1936; 1 TLS JEA-AAR, 1935; “An outline of a project for founding the film library of The Museum of Modern Art” 1935, certificate of incorporation

Finance Committee Correspondence
5 items
incl. list of members; statement by Samuel A. Lewisohn

Garden Committee (Reformed as Advisory Subcommittee 1939 as staff committee, 1944)
5 item
incl. notes of the informal meeting of the Garden Comm., 1939; tentative list of sculpture for the Sculpture Garden; 1 TLS Joseph Hudnut-TDM, 1938; 1 TLS Helen Resor-Philip Goodwin, 1938

House Committee (Reformed as Advisory Subcommittee 1939 as staff committee 1944)
4 items
incl. corresp., list of members

Industrial Design Committee
34 items
incl. letters confirming re-appointment

Library Committee
3/8"
Note: Committee dissolved 1939; incl. corresp. re: appointments; 1 TLS Walter Chrysler-ACG, 1936; list of members

Motion Picture Committee and Department
10 items
incl. corresp. re: establishment and appointment of members and chairman

Museum Collections Reports and Statements
5 items

Music Committee
2 items
incl. memos, corresp.

Nominating Committee
19 items
incl. corresp. re: committee appointments

Promotion Committee
½"
incl. meeting resumes; proposals

Reception Committee
½"
incl. form letters sent to committee members

World's Fair Committee Correspondence
1 item
incl. 1 TL TDM-Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1937

16 items
incl. 3 agendae for Corporation Meetings, 1950; amendments to the by-laws; election notices

4 items
incl. “Report of The Museum of Modern Art Film Library” 1936; “Report on the Work of The Museum of Modern Art Film Library as of April 13, 1936”; “Film Library Work and Progress Report”, 1937

See also, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers Record Group 1, 303 and René d'Harnoncourt Papers Series E, 941

Correspondence
½"
incl. condolence letters; NFPA Fire Record Department quarterly report; conservator's report; memos

Correspondence, Transcript
½"
incl. press releases; agenda of meeting of Friends of The Museum of Modern Art: Emergency Committee and Museum Fund Raising Group; list of contributors; transcript of remarks by NAR at Opening of MoMA Oct. 6, 1958; form letter sent to members; AHB condolence replies

Appeals for Contributions from Foundations
½"
incl. corresp. with foundations; “History of The Museum of Modern Art”; “Report to Rockefeller Foundation for Appropriation RF 39025 to The Museum of Modern Art for a Rotating Fund for Circulating Exhibitions”

Requests to Solicit Money from MoMA Staff
¼"
incl. corresp. from organizations and institutions

¼"
Note: MoMA Exh. #87-88, 1939 May 10-September 30; incl. corresp. re: MoMA and C/E versions of exh.; provenance, Elodie Courter

2 items
incl. “A Report Covering a Proposed Industrial Art Project of The Museum of Modern Art” by MW; statement re: establishment of Industrial Art Project, 1938

Transcripts
1/8"
incl. transcript of talks by Ira A. Hirschmann, Henri Laugier, and Wallace K. Harrison; Henri Laugier biography; form letter (invitation) 1947 October 17; acceptances; list of contributors

Publicity and Press Releases
5/8"

Correspondence, Memos
3/8"
incl. telegram NAR-Ira A. Hirschmann; regulations; list of jurors; transcript NBC broadcast with Amedee J. Ozenfant (excerpt)

incl. Minutes of the meeting of the Committee for the Formation of the International Council; corresp.; transcript of meeting of the Museum Council; outline and prospectus, “Annual Conference Dedicated to Modern Art and its Function in Contemporary Society”; agenda for meeting of National Council

½"
incl. lists of committees of the Junior Council and members; corresp. re: committee appointments; 1 TLS Gertrud A. Mellon-Thomas W. Braden, 1949; 1 ALS Blanchette Rockefeller-Braden, 1949

Note: see also, Allen Porter (IV.31.f.).

Lectures
7/8"
incl. course catalogs from other institutions; corresp. with Henry-Russell Hitchcock (Wesleyan University); corresp. re: proposed Matisse lecture

Roger Fry
12 items
incl. corresp. between AHB, Stephen C. Clark, ACG, and AAR re: raising funds for Fry lecture at MoMA

Lectures
5/8"
incl. “Report on Meeting of the State Chairmen of the Fine Arts Departments of The General Federation of Women's Clubs at Richmond, Virginia, Tuesday, May 23rd, 1933”, 1 ALS Mary Rockefeller re: lecture series by Helen Appleton Read and Blanche Stillson on “Modern French and German Art”

Lectures
18 items
inc. 1 TLS Meyer Schapiro-AHB

Gertrude Stein
½"
incl. 3 telegrams, 1934; clipping, 3 press releases; 1 TLS Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. (Robert M. MacGregor)-ACG, 1934; 5 TLS MacGregor-AHB, 1934; 4 TLS W. Colston Leigh-AHB, 1934; 1 TLS Princeton University (J. Duncan Spaeth)-AHB, 1934; 6 ALS Marvin Chauncey Ross-ARB, 1934; 1 ALS Ross-AHB, 1934; 1 TLS ACG-Stein, 1934; 1 TLS author unidentified-Stein, 1934; 2 TLS Alice B. Toklas-AHB, 1934; 1 TLS ARB-Alice B. Toklas, 1934; 1 ALS Toklas-ARB, 1934

Lectures
¼"
incl. corresp. with Franz Boaz; 1 TL AHB-Salvador Dali, press release re: Dali lecture at MoMA

Lectures
9 items
incl. 1 TLS Kenneth Clark-TDM, 1 TLS Clark-AHB

Lectures
5/8"
incl. 1 ALS Laura C. Boulton-AHB, 1935; 1 TLS Boulton-AHB, 1935; corresp. with the College Art Association (Audrey McMahon), 1 ALS Lee Simonson-Sarah Newmeyer, 1935

Leo Frobenius
½"
incl. schedule; corresp.; transcript of radio talk on Prehistoric Rock Paintings in Europe and Africa(MoMA Exh. #61, 1937 April 28-May 30)

Lectures
¼"
incl. schedule of film and lecture programs to be held at the Dalton Schools; 3 TL TDM-Walter Gropius; 1 ALS Agnes Rindge-TDM; 1 TL with autograph note Rindge-TDM; 5 TLS Rindge-TDM; 2 TLS Rindge-AHB; 1 TLS AHB-Rindge; 10 TL TDM/AHB-Rindge

Suggested Lectures
3/8"
incl. 4 TLS Charles R. Hulbeck (Richard Huelsenbeck)-AHB, 1941; 1 ALS David H. McAlpin-AHB, 1939; 1 TL TDM-Meyer Schapiro, 1939

Lectures
16 items
incl. memos, tickets to James Johnson Sweeney lecture on Pablo Picasso, lecture statistics, clipping

Barr Requests to Lecture
17 items
incl. invitations to AHB to lecture

Programs
A-M
½"
incl. corresp. with An American Group (Louis Lozowick); Air Youth of America (Russell Newcomb); memos and poster re: League of Composers

Programs
N-Z
3/4"
incl. biography, Joseph Schillinger; corresp., invitation, Swiss film program, 1940 (The Swiss Society of New York); prospectus, “Modern Art and Modern Music” lectures by Jonathan Schiller

Lectures
6 items
incl. brochures, posters by the Forum Lecture Bureau

Nicolas Calas
¼"
incl. invitation to Calas lecture; 2 TLS Calas-AHB, 1940, 1941; memos

Special Events
7/8"
incl. Julian Street, Jr. corresp. re: Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art(MoMA Exh. #106, 1940 May 15-September 30); day at MoMA for mayors' wives; Ballet Foundation tea in members' penthouse; New York City Board of Education; The Children's Aid Society; United States Congress (Jack Nichols, House of Representatives); Japan Society; Junior League re: Fifth Annual Children's Art competition exhibition; R. H. Macy & Co., the Pan American Society; Scientific Congress; Vassar College re: exhibition of Vassar architecture in members' penthouse; Hairdressers and Cosmotologists Convention; Young People's Day at MoMA in connection with We Like Modern Art(MoMA Exh. #120, 1941 December 27-January 12); Saks Fifth Avenue Cover Competition

Receptions
½"
incl. memos, guest lists, exhibition notes, lists of Reception Committee activities, “Facts Concerning The Museum of Modern Art Prepared for The Special Reception Committee for the Membership Teas”, 1940

Lectures
6 items
incl. memos, 1 TLS J. B. Neumann-Frances Hawkins re: lecture on Paul Klee; Beaumont Newhall “Painting and Photography” lecture notes; 1 TL AHB-John Rewald re: lecture on Aristide Maillol

“Problems of Post-War Planning”
1"
incl. program and transcript of lectures by Charles Abrams, John Merriman Gaus, Siegfried Giedion, George Howe, Joseph Hudnut, John Ihlder, Mary K. Simkhovitch, and Clarence S. Stein, for forum at MoMA; article, “The Political Art of Planning” by Joseph Hudnut reprinted from Architectural Record1943 October; press release; memos

“Problems of Post-War Planning”
½"
incl. 4 TL Agnes Rindge-Charles Abrams; 4 TLS, 1 ALS John M. Gaus-Rindge; 5 TL Rindge-Sigfried Giedeion; 1 TLS Giedeion-Rindge; 1 TLS Philip Goodwin-Rindge; 1 TLS Rindge-Goodwin; 6 TLS George Howe-Rindge; 1 ALS Howe-Rindge; 12 TLS Joseph Hudnut-Rindge; 4 TLS John Ihlder-Rindge; 1 TLS Cleveland Rodgers-Rindge

Naum Gabo
30 items
incl. autographed statement by Naum Gabo; memos, corresp. re: lecture at MoMA

Docents
8 items
incl. corresp., memos

Edith Sitwell
3/8"
incl. press release; clipping; MoMA invitation for Façade 1949; transcript of opening remarks by Sir Osbert (draft and revised version); order of program; budget; memos; 2 TL Lavinia Janes Sloan-Sir Osbert Sitwell, 1948; 1 TL MW-Pavel Tchelitchew, 1949; memo and program for performance of Lady Macbeth

Poetry Evenings
1 item
incl. poster for “Five Evenings with Modern Poets” (Modern Poetry Series)

¼"
incl. corresp. re: petition for increase in number of directors permitted by MoMA Charter; corresp. re: Grace Rainey Rogers Estate

¼"
incl. corresp. with American Artists' Congress; blurb on the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts and trip to Europe with Hofmann; corresp. with the United States Post Office

5/8"
incl. corresp. with the United States Post Office)

5/8"
incl. Allen Porter and Frances Hawkins responses to members re: complaints

3/8"
incl. 1 TLS Helen Keller; corresp. with members

“Sears, Roebuck & Co.,”
¼"
Note: MoMA Exh. #23, 1933 January 18-February 23; incl. ARB corresp.

½"
incl. corresp.

3 items
Note: MoMA Exh. #207, 1942 November 25-1943 January 3; incl. memos; corresp.

1 item
Note: MoMA Exh. #250, 1944 January 26-March 5; incl. exh. brochure

2 items
incl. list and covering memo

1 item
incl. 1 memo

¼"
incl. list of MoMA publications 1929-39; annual reports 1937-38 (2 copies), 1936-37, 1935-36, 1934

4 items
incl. 1 ALS Meyer Schapiro-Beatrice Reinfeld, 1942

Note: for documentation on Special Events, see “Lectures and Special Events”.

Financing
15 items

Architecture and Design
2 items
incl. statement by Arthur Drexler re: department's programs and history

Building Operations
2 items
incl. statement

Department of Film
5 items
incl. statement

Department of Photography
2 items
incl. statements of policies

Department of Publications, Library
2 items
incl. statement on departments' history and development

Memos
3/8"
incl. memos re: 1960 manual; histories of the Departments of Architecture and Design and Photography; comparative statement re: group visits, 1958-60, 1 TLS “Bob” (Department of Fine Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury Vt.)-Helen Franc, 1962; 1 TL Franc-“Bob”, 1962

Manual
15 items
incl. 1 TL to Richard E. Oldenburg; 1 memo Helen Franc-Richard H. Koch; outline; excerpt from 1960 July 27 minutes re: staff manual; suggestions from staff for in-house education programs; sample questionnaire

Manual
7 items
incl. outline

Department of Architecture and Design
3 items
incl. statement

Museum Building
8 items
incl. statement on history

Circulating Exhibitions
5 items
incl. statement on programs

Education
5 items
incl. brochure, “The Museum of Modern Art Educational Project, Membships and Services”; statement on function and programs; memo, Victor D'Amico-JEA, 1940

Director's Office
2 items
incl. description of functions

Exhibitions
9 items
incl. outline of responsibilities

Front Desk
2 items
incl. description of operations

Library
8 items
incl. statement of policies, services, and “Resources and Services of the Museum of Modern Art Library” 1948 Spring

Museum Collections
8 items
incl. history of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Print Room, description of loan procedures; memo Dorothy C. Miller-staff re: paintings in offices

Office Administration
14 items
incl. description of responsibilities

Organization, Committees Chart, Trustees
7 items
incl. statements, by-laws as amended 1950 November 16

4 items
incl. lists of responsibilities and programs

Publications Department
3 items
incl. statement on history and function

Department of Photography
3 items

Production
3 items
incl. statement of responsibilities

Registrar Department
8 items
incl. memos, statement on function

5/8"
Note: the project, required by the MoMA/PASTA contract, was initiated by John B. Hightower. Pearl Moeller was Archivist of the project. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Noble Foundation provided funding for the project for the period 1971 October-1972 September.

1 item

See also, Armed Services Program (I.3), Art Sale for the Armed Services (I.5), National War Poster Competition(MoMA Exh. #207, 1942 November 25-1943 January 3) (I.29), and “Problems of Post-War Planning” (I.22.v.).

Air Raid Precautions and War Activities
1"
incl. corresp., memos, press release re: Armed Services Program

Air Raid Precautions and War Activities
2 items, 18 sheets
incl. procedures and instructions

Series II. Latin-American Program 1941-48

26 filing units
Note: for additional material on “Contracts” see Addendum

¼"
incl. Luis de Zulueta, Jr. memos re: Rockefeller Foundation grant for Latin-American Artists File; corresp. (Spanish)

¼"
incl. original signed agreement between United States Center for Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) and MoMA; 1 ALS T. D'Amico-Ione Ulrich, 1943; corresp., memos re: scholarship; schedule re: payments

Contract (Original) - OR-1158
4 items
incl. corresp. with the office of Inter-American Affairs re: correction to original contract and copy of contract

The Americas Cooperate
13 items
Note: MoMA Exh. #198, 1942 September 20-October 18; incl. vouchers; MW corresp. and memos; press release

(C/E 1941-42, Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Art)
3/8"
incl. press release; transcript of lecture by Nathalie Herman re: Colonial Art of Latin America; “Pre-Columbian Art of Latin America” by Herbert J. Spinden

(C/E 1941-42, Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Art)
1"
incl. vouchers, ledger sheets, memos, corresp. and itineraries

2 items

5 items
incl. original signed contract

13 items
incl. corresp.; 1 TLS NAR-Karl G. Macdonald

5/8"
incl. vouchers; corresp.

½"
incl. shipping instructions; JEA corresp., memos, contract draft

3/4"
incl. Ione Ulrich corresp. re: photopanels for circulating exhibition re: U.S. Schools and Life and Illustrated Maps on the Land, Industries, and People for CIAA; vouchers; poster re: Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act

1"
incl. “Preliminary Listing of Publications Dealing with Latin America Issued by the Agencies of the United States Government During the Past Five Years”

M. UNK D. UNK UNK F. Jamieson
List of UNK to be UNK into UNK

1/8"
incl. MW corresp. re: Latin-American publications, “Report No. 1” and “Report No. 3” by Lewis Hanke; clipping re: Carleton Sprague Smith's South American tour

3/8"
incl. MoMA constitution Article II; list of MoMA activities in relation to Latin America; corresp. with the Center for Inter-American Affairs (CIAA); bulletin, “The Museum and The War”; budget ledger sheets

28 items
incl. vouchers, 5 TL Ione Ulrich-Porter A. McCray; 7 TLS McCray-Ulrich; 1 TLS Ulrich-RDH; 1 TL Ulrich-RDH (CIAA)

1"
incl. agenda for Executive Meeting, 1946 January 22; “Schedule of Cultural Projects” 1941; Minutes of the Advisory Committee on Art, Division of Cultural Cooperation Department of State, 1944 May 26 and 27; memo re: Brazil Builds(C/E 1942-45), 1944 March 22; RDH corresp. with M.D. Carrel (Project Director); Wallace K. Harrison (Office of Inter-American Affiars); Porter McCray (National Gallery of Art)

6 items
incl. memos re: rental of 9-11 West 54th Street

Purchases made by Lincoln Kirstein on trip
½"
incl. receipts, reviews of artists and report on trip to Argentina, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay

Lincoln Kirstein, Expenses
3/8"
incl. memos; corresp.

20 items
incl. AHB corresp. re: insurance of works loaned to Council of National Defense and Inter-American House

½"
incl. corresp.; memos; 1 telegram, AHB-Candido Portinari, 1941; 2 telegrams JEA-Grace L. McAnn Morley, 1940

Correspondence, Minutes
3/4"
Note: Conference took place at MoMA, 1945 May 28-31. Incl. “Resolutions and Recommendations of the Conference on Studies in Latin-American Art”; corresp. with participants AHB, Wendell Bennett, William Berrien, Holger Cahill, Stanton Catlin, Jean Charlot, John McAndrew, Kenneth Conant, Miguel Covarrubias, Margaret D. Garrett, Philip Goodwin, Lewis Hanke, Melville J. Herskovitz, Alfred V. Kidder, George Kubler, Waldo G. Leland, Grace L. McCann Morley, Milton C. Nahm, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Ruth Reeves, Daniel Catton Rich, Laurence Schmeckebier, Robert C. Smith, Herbert J. Spinden, David Stevens, Elizabeth Wilder, Mitchell Wilder, Nathalie H. Zimmern; Minutes of the Organizing Committee of Conference on Latin-American Art, 1944; Minutes of Executive Session of the Joint Committee on Latin-American Studies; Agenda for Meeting of Joint Committee on Latin-American Studies, 1944 September 8-9

Correspondence
¾"
incl. “Foreword” by RDH for “Proceedings of the Conference on Latin-American Studies”, 1949; RDH corresp. with R. S. Boggs (Ralph Steele), Alfred V. Kidder, Alfred L. Kroeber, George A. Kubler, John McAndrew, Porter McCray (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), Henry Allen Moe (John Simon Guggenheim Foundation), Grace L. McCann Morley, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Robert C. Smith, Herbert J. Spinden, Elizabeth Wilder, George C. Vaillant; 1 TL Lincoln Kirstein-RDH, 1945; 2 TLS Erwin Panofsky-RDH, 1945

Member's Statements
3/8"
incl. RDH corresp.; transcripts of speeches by AHB, Jean Charlot, Alfred V. Kidder, George Kubler, John McAndrew, Melville J. Herskovitz, Grace L. McCann Morley, Milton C. Nahm, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Daniel Catton Rich, Robert C. Smith, Mitchell A. Wilder; 1 TLS Jean Charlot-RDH, 1945; 1 TLS Erwin Panofsky-RDH, 1945

1/8"
incl. receipts; corresp.; memos

3/8"
incl. vouchers; receipts; corresp.

See also, Circulating Exhibitions Record Group for report on exhibition.

Checklists and press releases
½"

Publicity Reports
½"
incl. remarks of JEA, 1941 Feb. 28; Metropolitan Museum of Art brochure

1"
incl. “The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals”, press releases

½"
incl. lists of Latin-American visitors to MoMA; 1 TLS Carleton Sprague Smith-RDH, 1945; 1 TL RDH-Daniel Catton Rich, 1946

1"
incl. 3 ALS Florence Dibell Bartlett-RDH, 1946; proposals for manual industries program in Haiti; 1 TLS Lincoln Kirstein-RDH, 1946; RDH corresp. with George W. Gay, 1946; corresp. with Kenneth G. Holland (Office of Inter-American Affairs), 1946; RDH and NAR corresp. with Boaz Long (United States Department of the Interior Indian Arts and Crafts Board); essay, “Present Ceramic Art of Peru” by Guillermo Schmidt Pizarro

3/4"
incl. corresp. re: memberships given by NAR to people involved in effort to establish cultural ties with Latin America

1 item

3/8"
incl. Minutes of the Advisory Art Committee of the Office of the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics; “Preliminary Report on Exhibitions of United States Art in South America and Cuba” by Morley, 1941; 1 TLS Morley-Teresa Cuervo Borda (French), 10 TLS Morley-JEA; 2 autographed notes Morley-JEA; 3 TLS Morley-Stanton Catlin; 1 ALS Morley-Catlin

Series III. Television Project 1939-55

28 filing units
Note: the Museum's television research was supervised by RdH and funded by the Rockeller Brothers Fund. Sidney Peterson was Director of the Museum's Television Project; Douglas MacAgy was Consultant to the Director. Thomas L. Stix and J. G. Gude were the Museum's agents

1/8"
incl. corresp.; original signed contract

Art Film Cycles, 1953
3 items
incl. memos MacAgy-Richard Griffith

Pending
¼"
Note: MacAgy's file copies re: 25th Anniversary. MacAgy was on the 25th Anniversary Staff Committee; incl. corresp; calendar of 25th anniversary events; memos re: International Council conference, fund raising; staff recommendations for Anniversary program; “precis” of the Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees on the Anniversary Year, 1953 October 1; memo Allen Porter-Coordination Committee, 1952 re: Museum hours

Proposed Exhibitions
4 items
incl. Douglas MacAgy memos

7/8"
incl. corresp., notes and reports re: television series Good Design, Forty Years, They Became Artists, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz(MoMA Exh. #558, 1954 June 16-October 21), Through the Enchanted Gate, The Wall, Ancient Arts of the Andes(MoMA Exh. #550, 1954 January 26-March 21), and show about MoMA for Dimension(WCBS); transcript, Edgar J. Kaufmann and Margaret Arlen for Good Design(WCBS)

Agreement, French Translation
1 item

Correspondence
¼"
incl. 1 TL (copy) Marc Chagall-Sidney Peterson, 1954; 1 TL Peterson-Chagall, 1954; 2 TL Douglas MacAgy-Chagall, 1954; 1 TL (copy) Chagall-MacAgy, 1954; 2 TLS Bernard Reis (Bernard Reis & Company)-RDH, 1954; MacAgy corresp. with Ralph F. Colin (Rosenman Goldmark Colin & Kaye); report and chart re: Museum's television activities 1952 January 1-1953 June 25

Photographs, “They Became Artists”
23 items
incl. checklist; 21 photographs

3 items

4 items
incl. corresp., clippings

¼"
incl. memo re: The Visual History of the Twentieth Century;resume, Sidney Peterson

Educational Television, New York
1/8"
incl.: memos re: Through the Enchanted Gate;agenda and report re: Metropolitan Educational Television Association Trustees meeting, 1955 January 26; clippings

Through the Enchanted Gate
7 items
incl. Committee on Art Education conference brochures; Through the Enchanted Gate program guide by Victor D'Amico (WNBT)

Memos, Clippings
3/8"

½"
incl. resumes; information brochures

10 items
incl. memos; brochures, “Circulating Film Programs”, 1953 and “Documentary and Experimental Films”, 1953

Canadian Television
1/8"
incl. corresp.

European Television Contacts
7 items
incl. checklist; clipping re: Patrick Campbell

France, 1954
2 items
incl. 1 TL; clipping

Great Britain
13 items
incl. corresp. with the British Broadcasting Company; bibliography; clippings; article, “Television and the Future of Documentary” by Paul Rotha

Clippings, Magazines
5/8"

Correspondence, Newsletters
½"
incl. proposal for allocation of educational television channels; Radio Corporation of America, Educational Television newsletters; draft of WNBT press release re: “Through the Enchanted Gate”; corresp. with the Joint Committee on Educational Television and the Public Education Association; transcript, Governor Earl Warren's address at the Conference on Educational Television, 1952; article, “How Television can Serve the University”

Correspondence
¼"
incl. Bernard Karpel corresp. with U.S. museums re: existing television projects

Television Report, Correspondence and Clippings
7/8"
incl. corresp.; memos Betty Chamberlain-RDH; “Proposal for Integrated Television Program Under The Museum of Modern Art”; Minutes of the meeting of the Television Committee of the Museums Council at MoMA, 1948 November 22; report, “The Museum and Television”; 1 TLS NAR-Chamberlain, 1950; clippings

3/8"
Note: MoMA Exh. #559, 1954 June 16-October 21; incl. corresp.; typescript; shot lists

3/4"
incl. newsletters

3 items
incl. memos; 1 TL

“Architectural Millinery,”
1/8"
incl. program transcript; script and scene list

Correspondence
1/8"
incl. description, clippings

“Manhole Covers,”
¼"
incl. program transcript; typescripts; photograph; corresp.; clipping

Report and Correspondence
¼"
incl. report on “They Became Artists” (animation art); excerpt of Aline B. Saarinen interview with Jacques Lipchitz

¼"
incl. outline, “A Report on the Situation in Television as Related to Museum Interests, as it is Seen Today”; progress reports re: Television Project 1954

1/8"
incl. corresp.; memo re: Dorothy C. Miller in Americans at Workprogram (WABC), 1939

4 items
incl. handwritten notes; memos

12 items
incl. memos; corresp.

½"
incl. memos; Sidney Peterson corresp. with Muriel Rukeyser; press release and brochure re: The People's Art Center; proposals

5/8"
incl. corresp. with Ira A. Hirschmann (Metropolitan Television/Bloomingdale's) and James W. Husted (Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts); typescript, “Television and the Visual Arts”; 1 TL AHB-Constantin Joffé, 1946 re: telecast on Guernicaby Pablo Picasso; 1 TLS Thomas L. Stix-Thomas W. Braden, 1948 re: MoMA television show

1/8"
incl. press releases; memos re: media programs related to MoMA Exhibitions

34 sheets
incl. “Introduction” re: television and the viewer

5/8"
incl. corresp.; Conference excerpts

MoMA Exh. #581, 1955 June 22-September 27

Cartoon Synopses for Symposia
¼"
incl. brochure, “Second-Sight Sam” and synopses

Correspondence
7/8"
incl. “Material for UPA Show” (pp. 1-12); corresp. with Beaumont Newhall (George Eastman House)

Label Information and Correspondence
1/8"
incl. guest list for exh. opening; “Introduction to U.P.A. Preview”; corresp. Douglas MacAgy-Beaumont Newhall

Labels
1/8"
incl. label drafts for cartoons

12 items
Note: re: television series proposed by the Department of Architecture and Design; incl. corresp.; memos

1/8"

Series IV. Individuals and Institutions 1929-60

47 filing units

3/8"
incl. 1 TLS Juliana Force-JEA, 1944; 2 TLS Force-AHB, 1942, 1944; 1 TL and poster re: World Youth Festival, 1947

1"
incl. 1 TL RDH-Laurence Vail Coleman (Director, AAM), 1946; informal half-year reports of AAM

Lists, Program
1"
incl. list of traveling exhibitions, 1948-49; TDM, JEA, Elodie Courter, and AHB corresp. with the AFA re: circulating exhibitions; list of circulating exhibitions, 1938-39 with rental fees; program, 28th Annual Convention, 1937

List, Program, Correspondence
3/4"
incl. list of traveling exhibitions, 1934-35; program, 26th Annual Convention; corresp. with Frederic Allen Whiting, Jr. ( The American Magazine of Artan AFA publication); 1 ALS RDH-JEA

5/8"
incl. corresp.; Bulletin of the Soviet Union3(2), 1938 January 20 and 1(3), 1936 March 15; memo re: Ambassador Davies' Russian art collection; annual report of the American-Russian Institute, 1934-35; brochure, bibliography re: Education in the Soviet Union;exhibition catalog, Seven Years School Exhibition of the U.S.S.R.

1/8"
incl. 1 TLS Charles Sheeler-AHB, 1935; 1 TLS Walter C. Arensberg-ACG, 1936; 1 TLS Arensberg-TDM, 1936; 2 TLS Arensberg-AHB, 1936; 1 TLS Arensberg-JJS; corresp. JJS/AHB-Arensberg, 1935-37; Iris Barry's notes on Arensberg Collection

Correspondence
3/8"
incl. 1 TL Naum Gabo-AHB, (1936) re: damaged works; 1 TL AHB-Gabo, 1936; 1 TL Antoine Pevsner-AHB, 1936; 1 TL AHB-Pevsner, 1936; corresp. re: African Negro Art(C/E 1935-36, MoMA Exh. #39, 1935 March 18-May 19); corresp. re: Twenty-five Paintings from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection(C/E 1935, MoMA Exh. #34a., The Lillie P. Bliss Collection1934 May 14-September 12)

Correspondence
½"
incl. corresp. between Elodie Courter and Alice F. Roullier re: MoMA loans; 1 TL author unidentified-Roullier re: theft of Paul Klee drawing, 1941

19 items
incl. corresp.; memo re: WPA Art Project Resolution; constitution and bylaws; “Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Association of Museum Directors on the Problems of Protection and Defense Held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 20th and 21st, 1941”

7/8"
incl. “Reports on the Murals Being Done by Jo Cain at the New York State Training School of Warwick, New York,” 1 TLS NAR-Cain, 1933

A-Be
½"
incl. corresp. with A.C.A. Gallery, Arden Gallery, The Artists' Gallery, Balzac Galleries, John Becker, Bernheim-Jeune & Cie., Galeries Georges Petit

Bi-C
5/8"
incl. corresp. with Bignou Gallery, Bourgeois Galleries, The F. H. Bresler Co., Brummer Gallery, Buchholz Gallery (23 TLS, 1 ALS Curt Valentin), Paul Cassirer

5/8"
incl. 1 ALS Charles Daniel (The Daniel Gallery)-AHB, 1931; 1 ALS Daniel-Mary Sands, 1930; corresp. with Delphic Studios, Dudensing Galleries, Durand-Ruel Inc., Duveen Brothers (Joseph Duveen) and obituary

F-G
5/8"
incl. corresp. with Ferargil Galleries, The Frick Collection, Paul Guillaume

H-M
5/8"
incl. 1 TLS Grace Horne-Jere Abbott, 1932; 3 TLS Horne-AHB, 1930, 1932; 2 handwritten notes Chester A. Johnson, 1933; 1 TL MoMA-Dikran G. Kelekian, 1929; 14 TLS Julien Levy-AHB, 1932-36; 3 TLS Allen Porter (Julien Levy Gallery)-AHB, 1933; corresp. with M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.; the Macbeth Gallery, Roy MacNicol, Midtown Galleries, the Milch Galleries, Montross Gallery

N-Pa
3/4"
incl. corresp. with Gustave Nassauer, Neue Kunst Fides, Nierendorf Gallery, Georgette Passedoit; 5 ALS J.B. Neumann-AHB, 1930, 1935; 1 handwritten note Neumann, ca. 1931; 4 TLS Neumann-AHB, 1935, 1939; 1 TLS Neumann-MW, 1938; 1 TLS Neumann-Dorothy H. Dudley, 1936

Pe-Z
½"
incl. corresp. with Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, Alexander Reid & Lefevre, Reinhardt Galleries, Howard Young Galleries; 5 ALS F. Valentine Dudensing (Valentine Gallery)-AHB, 1933-34; 1 ALS Valentine-Lincoln Kirstein, 1932; 1 ALS Valentine-Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1932

Weyhe Gallery
¼"
incl. corresp.

¼"
incl. JTS notes and piece on MoMA for Encyclopedia Americana Annual;AHB article on MoMA

¼"
incl. recommendation letter (author unidentified); accident report

17 items
incl. checklist of paintings owned by Marshall Field; obituary and designation of the Edsel Ford Memorial Membership by trustees; letter of trustee appointment and 7 TL-Edsel B. Ford (Ellie), 1 TLS Raymond B. Fosdick re: resignation as trustee

1 item

3/8"
incl. corresp. with the Garden Club of America; 1 TLS Helen Resor-AHB, 1939; 1 TL TDM-Rose Gershwin, 1937; 1 telegram, NAR-Rose Gershwin, 1937; 1 TL Registrar-George Gershwin, 1934; 2 TL Sarah Newmeyer-George Gershwin, 1933; 6 TL Susan Cable-Mrs. Simon Guggenheim (Olga H.), 1950; 1 TL NAR-Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1950; 1 handwritten note Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1950 and TL accepting position as trustee, (n.d.); 2 TL author unidentified-Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1947; 1 TL JEA-Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1944; 1 TL AHB-Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1942

33 items
incl. 2 TL, 3 TLS, 1 ALS Paul Ganz-AHB, drawings by Paul A. Ganz (Paul Ganz's son) as a child; 18 photographs; 2 TL AHB-Mrs. W. Murray Crane

1 item
incl. statement to Museum staff and Trustees

5/8"

½"
incl. 1 ALS Katherine A. Hochschild-Henry Allen Moe, 1950; 2 ALS Hochschild-AHB, 1941; Catherine Hood corresp. and monthly reports on lectures; transcript of “Behind the Scenes” lecture

4 items
incl. corporate resolutions; corresp. re: dissolution

14 items
incl. corresp. with the Inter-American Bureau of Information

7 items
Note: concerns Advisory Committee role in establishing Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art

¼"
incl. AHB corresp. re: competition for memorial design; corresp. with The League for Progress in Architecture, Otha D. Wearin (U.S. Congress); 1 TL AHB-Milton Horn; 1 ALS Horn-AHB; 1 ALS William Lescaze-AHB; Report of Advisory Committee to the Executive Committee to protest award of memorial design without a competition; clippings

¼"

5 items
incl. corresp. re: Robert Frost bust by Alfeo Faggi

7 items

½"
incl. corresp. with S. van Deventer re: MoMA loan of Vincent van Gogh paintings; gift of Kröller-Müller collection to the Netherlands state; loan of works by Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso for Cubism and Abstract Art(MoMA Exh. #46, 1936 March 2-April 19); van Gogh painting on consignment to Felix Wildenstein

½"
incl. corresp. with R. Lérondelle, The Library of Congress; The Jury of Living American Art

½"
incl. 3 ALS Mrs. James B. Murphy (Ray S.)-AHB, 1932, 1936; 8 ALS Murphy-ARB, 1933

½"
incl. AHB, Dorothy Dudley, Sarah Newmeyer and Rockefeller Foundation memos and corresp.; 2 TLS ACG-TDM, 1937; telegraph Artemas Packard-TDM, 1936

¼"
incl. 1 postcard, 7 ALS May-AHB, 1933-39; 1 TLS, 4 ALS May-Alice Mallette, 1935-36; 1 ALS May-M/M Mallette, 1935; 1 TLS May-AHB, 1939; list of gifts to MoMA

A-I: Compliments
5/8"
incl. 1 TL (copy) Stuart Davis; 1 TLS Philip Goodwin; 1 TLS Caroline Hood

J-Z: Compliments
7/8"
incl. 1 TLS Helen Resor; 1 TLS Nelson A. Rockefeller; 1 ALS Lee Simonson; 1 TLS James Johnson Sweeney-Porter; 1 TLS Wendell L. Willkie

Museums and Museum Organizations
3/8"
incl. clipping re: JJS resignation from Guggenheim Museum

A-M Bulletin
3/8"
incl. 1 memo Porter-AHB

The Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art
½"
incl. Allen Porter, RDH, Susan Cable corresp.; lists of distribution

Lecture and Music Program Suggestions
¼"
incl. 1 TL MW-Oskar Kokoschka; 1 TLS NAR-JEA

Correspondence
½"
incl. Porter and Frances Hawkins responses to visitors re: complaints

1 item
incl. transcript of talk at Women's City Club

¼"
incl. memos, corresp. re: visits to MoMA

½"
incl. corresp. re: a circulating German art exhibition to further cultural relations between U.S. and Germany; 1 TLS Erwin Panofsky “Pan”-AHB, 1937; 1 TL AHB-Panofsky, 1937

¼"
incl. letter of resignation as Chairman of the Reception Committee, Treasurer, and Trustee, 1941; New York State Liquor Authority Poster Contest rules; 1 TL re: election to Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees; memo re: admission fee, 1932

3/8"
incl. log; corresp.; resume

Memos
¼"
incl. memos between Street, AHB, and JEA; 1 TL Street-JJS

Correspondence and Memos
3/8"
incl. corresp.; memos Street-Jere Abbott; memos re: Air Youth of America conference at MoMA

Memos and Correspondence
¼"
incl. memos re: auction of collection, corresp. with Mary Sullivan (Mrs. Cornelius J.); 1 handwritten note Mary Sullivan-JJS, (1935); 1 TLS Mary Sullivan-Day & Meyer Murray & Young, Inc.; 2 handwritten notes Mary Sullivan-ARB, (1932); 1 handwritten note Mary Sullivan-ACG, (1932)

Correspondence
5/8"
incl. 1 TLS William S. Paley-TDM re: acceptance of appointment as Trustee of Modern Art Film Library Corporation, 1937; 1 TLS AHB-ACG, 1937; 1 TLS Paley-ACG, 1937; 1 TLS John Hay Whitney (Jock)-ACG, 1937; 1 TLS Gerald Donovan-ACG re: resignation as Trustee of Modern Art Film Library Corporation, 1937; 1 TL Donovan-MoMA re: proposed admission fee, 1937; 1 TL Donovan-TDM re: establishment of museum store, 1937

Correspondence
5/8"
incl. 1 TLS NAR-ACG, 1935; 1 TL John Lane-TDM, 1935; corresp. re: withdrawal of Frank Lloyd Wright model from Modern Architecture: International Exhibition(MoMA Exh. #15, 1932 February 15-March 23, CE 1932-33); “statement to be used in making application for a permanent charter as an education institution”

Note: Sweeney was Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, 1945-46.

A-K Correspondence
3/4"
incl. 2 TLS Max Bill-JJS; 6 TLS JJS-Albert C. Barnes (The Barnes Foundation); 1 TLS Barnes-JJS; 1 TLS Abraham Chanin-JJS; memos re: circulating exhibitions; 2 ALS Arnold Friedman-JJS; 3 TLS JTS-JJS/AHB; corresp. re: gifts offered; 1 ALS Xavier Gonazalez-JJS; article, “Picasso and Joyce: the Prelude to Conscience” by John Fabian Kienitz; 2 TL JJS-Mrs. Paul Klee (Lily) re: lost etching

L-R Correspondence
3/4"
incl. 1 TL JJS-Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; 1 TL JJS-Georgia O'Keeffe; 5 ALS Bernard Reder-JJS; 5 ALS Henriette Reiss-JJS

S-Z Correspondence
3/4"
incl. 1 ALS Patrick Scott-JJS; 2 TL Christian Zervos-JJS; memos re: William Zorach sculpture in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden; 1 TL Zorach-Dorothy Dudley, 1945

General Correspondence
½"
incl. 1 TLS Edward Alden Jewell-JJS; 3 TL JJS-Jewell; 1 telegram, 2 TL JJS-J. V. Kevan; 1 telegram Kevan-JJS; 1 telegram Naum Gabo-JJS; 1 TL JJS-Gabo; 2 TLS Philip Goodwin-JJS; 1 TL JJS-Goodwin; 1 TL JJS-ACG; corresp. with the Office of War Information (OWI); memos to/from Department of Painting and Sculpture; 1 ALS, 1 handwritten note Dorothy C. Miller-JJS; 1 TL JJS-Hans Richter

Reproduction Rights
3/8"
incl. corresp. from JJS files re: Artists Rights Campaign and Stuart Davis reproductions in Jay Thorpe window display; 3 TL JJS-Peter Blume; 1 TL Davis-Gerald Weatherly

1 item
incl. 1 TL (author unidentified)-Harry Bull (editor) re: Surrealist emigrés

19 items
incl. statement of the United American Artists Union on the burning of the Floyd Bennett Airport Murals

3/8"
incl. report of the Office of Assistant Treasurer and Controller, 1944; 1 TL Ulrich-Mrs. David M. Levy, 1945, with report to Elodie Courter; “Here and Now - Modern Art Today”, 1946; 1 TLS NAR, 1948; 2 TL Ione Ulrich-NAR, 1948; Membership report, 1948; Schedule of Source of Capital Funds, 1948; 1 memo Arthur Jones-Susan Cable re: Finance analysis, 1948; 1 memo Emily C. Woodruff-Coordination Committee, 1951; 2 TL Ione Ulrich-Home Insurance Co., 1951; 3 flow charts, museum organization

1¼"
incl. report on the Reception for the General Assembly of the United Nations; corresp. re: planning; memos re: costs; press releases; “Information Gathered by Liaison Officers of the Protocol & Liaison Section”

¼"
incl. AHB corresp. re: gifts, contributions, and loans of works of art to MoMA, corresp. re: election to Executive Committee, Exhibitions Committee, and Film Library Committee; 1 ALS Edward M. M. Warburg-ARB, (1932); 1 TLS Warburg-ARB, (1932); 1 TLS Warburg-AHB, (1932)

Note: these files were originally found among The Department of Circulating Exhibitions Departmental Correspondence

Correspondence
32 items
incl. list of members, corresp. and notes re: Sporting Picturesand Modern French Mastersexhibitions

Correspondence
54 items
incl. corresp. between Adele K. Smith and AHB re: American Paintings for Paris

Correspondence
8 items
tax-related corresp.

Correspondence
¼"
incl. corresp. from MW files while at Harrison of Paris and New York Publishers; 2 TL MW-Georgia O'Keeffe, 1948; 1 TL author unidentified-NAR re: formation of separate Industrial Art Department, 1938; 1 TL Thomas W. Braden-MW re: MW's election to Board of Trustees; 1 TL AHB-MW re: Library Committee Chairmanship, 1938; 1 TL AHB-MW while a volunteer at MoMA re: The Prints of Georges Rouault(MoMA Exh. #79, 1938 September 28-November 18); corresp. re: Modern Painter and Sculptors as Illustrators(MoMA Exh. #47, 1936 April 27-September 2)

Correspondence and Memos Monroe Wheeler-John E. Abbott
3/8"
incl. schedules, corresp. and memos re: publications; 1 signed memo Philip Goodwin, 1942

Inter-Office Memos
3/8"
incl. corresp. and memos re: programs, publications, exhibitions, special events

Inter-Office Memos
5/8"
incl. corresp. and memos re: exhibitions, museum operations, publications; transcripts, “March of Time Broadcast” and “The Tale of Europe's Children” by Therese Bonney

Inter-Office Memos
½"
incl. corresp. and memos re: museum operations, exhibitions, registration, museum policies

15 items
2½"

Zulueta was Research Associate in Foreign Activities 1944-45

A-Lo Correspondence
½"
incl. corresp. re: Latin-American exhibitions, esp. United Hemisphere Poster Competition(MoMA Exh. #201, 1942 October 21-November 24, C/E 1942-44; corresp. with RDH (at the Office of the CIAA and Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior), Stanton L. Catlin, Mildred Constantine (Office of the CIAA), Margaret Garrett (NGA) re: Porter McCray, Philip Goodwin, Langston Hughes, Lincoln Kirstein

Lu-Z Correspondence
½"
incl. corresp. with Olive M. Lyford (Exec. Sec'y. CIAA), Porter McCray

Series V: Addendum to Early Museum History: Administrative Records

Note: C/E 1941; exhibition was divided into three sections which circulated simultaneously in South America. These 3 file folders were found by the Museum's Film Study Center among their Office of Inter-American Affairs files; the files were given to the Archives in 1991. See also, Department of Circulating Exhibitions Record Group for additional material on this exhibition.

War Risk Insurance
110 items
incl. John E. Abbott, Ione Ulrich, NAR/Office of Inter-American Affairs) corresp. with The Brooklyn Museum, The Newark Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Whitney Museum of American Art; “Schedule of Costs re: Circulation of Three Exhibitions in South America” 1943; “Schedule of Computation of Administrative Overhead” 1943, “Schedule of War Risk Insurance” (4 drafts)

War Risk Insurance
60 items
incl. “Schedule of Computation of Administrative Overhead” 1942; correspondence

Latin America Industrial Design Competition
72 items
incl. invitation to opening of Organic Design in Home Furnishings (MoMA Exh. #148, 1941 September 24-November 9; leaflets (1 Spanish, 1 English) re: Industrial Design Competitions for the twenty-one American Republics; 2 signed Agreements re: Competition; Schedule of prize money awarded; corresp. re: Industrial Design Competition; corresp. re: Bernard Rudofsky award money and emigration to America; Eliot F. Noyes corresp. and memoranda; press releases